Ren_Arakawa
"The world only looks dark when your eyes are closed."
When sixteen-year-old Ren Arakawa wished for another world, he didn't expect to wake up in one - reborn amidst ashes, demons, and endless night.
In this strange realm consumed by Shadowlands, light itself is dying. Villages fall one by one, and humanity survives only behind glowing wardstones. But when a boy named Ren unleashes a mysterious red power that destroys the creatures of darkness, whispers spread - of a child marked by gods, or cursed by something far worse.
As Ren grows, the truth of his power - and the memories of the life he once lived - begin to resurface. Haunted by dreams of rain, bridges, and a girl beneath cherry trees, he must face a world where light and shadow blur, and survival means confronting the darkness within himself.
A story of rebirth, loss, and the thin line between despair and hope.
When the world ends in shadow... will Ren be its curse - or its dawn?